A 257-Year-Old Coloring Book Was Discovered in St. Louis. It was intended for "Gentleman and Ladies." http://botanicus.org/title/b11968564

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Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The Met, New York Public Library, Smithsonian & More http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/free-coloring-books-from-world-class-libraries-museums.html

Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/11/frida-kahlo-fridolatry-artist-myth

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“Faces of Frida” not only features Kahlo’s sketches, paintings, and self-portraits, but also many personal artifacts, such as diary entries, photographs, and letters. One of the parts of the collection that I find most interesting reveals “secret” messages that Kahlo included in her letters to friends and family, her way of sharing details about the hardships of her life, like her husband’s cheating: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/frida-kahlo

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Gillian Anderson, John Cho, Elijah Wood, and More at New York Comic Con http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/gillian-anderson-john-cho-and-more-at-new-york-comic-con.html

Stars in Stars and Stripes for July 4th! Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and More http://thebea.st/lZx1ga

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Frida Kahlo: through the lens of Nickolas Muray – in pictures https://goo.gl/63Pbal

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Lennart Nilsson, 'Drama of Life Before Birth': LIFE Magazine, 1965 http://ti.me/2fn29Gb The University of Cambridge claims that "Nilsson actually photographed abortus material... working with dead embryos allowed Nilsson to experiment with lighting, background and positions, such as placing the thumb into the fetus’ mouth. But the origin of the pictures was rarely mentioned, even by anti abortion activists, who in the 1970s appropriated these icons." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Nilsson http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/s7_4.html Ernst Haeckel http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo18785800.html

:"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” Hunter S. Thompson

:"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” Hunter S. Thompson

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:On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to witness the Earth rising above the moon's barren surface. Anders' photo of the moment changed how we see our planet.

In Its First Decades, The United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers @atlasobscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/early-american-schoolgirl-maps

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How well do you know the folklore of your region? Check it out on this beautiful mid-century map http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/08/21/william_gropper_his_mid_century_map_of_american_folklore.html

Roadside America #flickr Take a journey along U.S. main streets, byways, and highways through photographs taken by John Margolies between 1969 and 2008. We’ll be continuously adding images from the Margolies archive of more than 11,000 color slides. And if you recognize a site, please tell us more about it, or share a picture of it if it’s still standing! https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4GsudP

Photos of Brooklyn Before and After the Hipsters. http://www.wired.com/2015/09/photos-brooklyn-hipsters/

Photos of Brooklyn Before and After the Hipsters. http://www.wired.com/2015/09/photos-brooklyn-hipsters/

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Behold the most terrifying images in these declassified nuclear test videos http://wapo.st/2m8W6J3

Area 51 Aerial Time Lapse Shows How the Secretive Location Has Grown. More buildings, more runways, more mystery. https://earthengine.google.com/iframes/timelapse_player_embed.html#v=37.22393,-115.79862,11.814,latLng&t=2.80

The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, they have placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to all comers without restriction. https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1

“This, officer, is not a truck. It is a housecar.” The incomplete history of the Brooks Stevens motorhomes http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/09/12/this-officer-is-not-a-truck-it-is-a-housecar-the-incomplete-history-of-the-brooks-stevens-motorhomes/

“This, officer, is not a truck. It is a housecar.” The incomplete history of the Brooks Stevens motorhomes http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/09/12/this-officer-is-not-a-truck-it-is-a-housecar-the-incomplete-history-of-the-brooks-stevens-motorhomes/

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Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United State’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). http://photogrammar.yale.edu

POLAPREMIUM BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE! As the last quantities of carefully stored original Polaroid films are currently melting like snow in the sun, it is about time to introduce a new chapter of analog Instant Photography. To begin with, please make yourself comfortable at our new Impossible shop and update your bookmarks. In the meantime, we are preparing everything for the Impossible. http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. http://www.archive.org/index.php

“Faces of Frida” not only features Kahlo’s sketches, paintings, and self-portraits, but also many personal artifacts, such as diary entries, photographs, and letters. One of the parts of the collection that I find most interesting reveals “secret” messages that Kahlo included in her letters to friends and family, her way of sharing details about the hardships of her life, like her husband’s cheating: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/frida-kahlo

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943. These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Meet Dion Milam. The 30-year-old California inmate may be the scariest looking criminal TSG has ever seen. Milam, who wears "Aryan" and "Honor" tattoos above his eyebrows and a swastika tat on his neck, was charged yesterday in a methamphetamine case (his brother-in-law allegedly tried to mail the drug into the Stanislaus County Jail, where Milam is being held on a murder charge). This mug shot was taken earlier this year following Milam's arrest in the murder case. Milam, who pulled a gun on sheriff's deputies, got roughed up a bit as he resisted arrest.

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On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to witness the Earth rising above the moon's barren surface. Anders' photo of the moment changed how we see our planet.

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Roadside America #flickr Take a journey along U.S. main streets, byways, and highways through photographs taken by John Margolies between 1969 and 2008. We’ll be continuously adding images from the Margolies archive of more than 11,000 color slides. And if you recognize a site, please tell us more about it, or share a picture of it if it’s still standing! https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4GsudP

Starting in the fall of 1943, photographer Ansel Adams chronicled the day-to-day existence of the people held at Manzanar. He was distressed that the lives of American citizens had been uprooted in such a way, and strove to capture on film the humanity of the detainees as they faced dehumanizing circumstances. "Nothing is more permanent about Manzanar than the dust which has lodged in its tar-papered barracks, except the indelible impression incised on the lives of thousands of its inhabitants," Adams wrote. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/ansel-adams-manzanar_n_5155579.html

The Campaign to Protect Rural England and The Campaign for Dark Skies want people to look up at Orion - one of the most recognisable constellations in the winter night sky - and count the stars they see. One of the organisers, astronomer Darren Baskill from the University of Sussex, explains. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12292852

Prudes shouldn’t go into archeology. The patina of antiquity may make a carved ivory phallus, Venus figurine, or vulva painting on a cave wall priceless, communicating to us from a mute, distant past. But transplant those images to the modern world and you get dildos, Playboy, and Georgia O’Keefe. Still, most prehistoric erotic art is abstract, disembodied. It doesn’t explicitly depict sex-crazed ancients screwing their brains out for fun and fertility.
But one little-known, mysterious archaeological site does. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs are bas-relief carvings in a massive red-basalt outcropping in the remote Xinjiang region of northwest China. The artwork includes the earliest—and some of the most graphic—depictions of copulation in the world. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/prehistoric_pornography_chinese_carvings_show_explicit_copulation.html

The Art Institute of Chicago recently unveiled a new website design. As part of their first design upgrade in 6 years, they have placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to all comers without restriction. https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1

Ottawa artist Howie Tsui paints fantastical, evil, and beautiful landscapes of monsters, ghosts, demons, and deities. He tells me that his new large paintings, "Horror Fables," are in the form of Ming Dynasty scrolls and were influenced by "a variety of dark subjects, including Asian ghost stories, Buddhist hell scrolls, Hong Kong vampire films, neo-conservative propaganda, and twentieth-century genocides such as the Nanking massacre." Howie Tsui http://www.howietsui.com/

Seeking a Future for a Symbol of a Grander Past, DETROIT — The last train pulled away more than 20 years ago from Michigan Central Station, one of thousands of “see-through” buildings here, empty shells from more auspicious times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06station.html

Railplane. George Bennie (1891–1957) invented a transport that moved along an overhead rail using propellers. The idea was that it would run above conventional railways, separating faster passenger traffic from slower freight trains.

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) has made another spectacular minute by minute documentary, this time recording Norway’s northenmost railway linking Trondheim and Bodø. We’ve recorded it four times — once for every season, giving truly unique footage of this ten hour ride. http://nrkbeta.no/

Union Pacific gas turbine No. 75 exits the tunnels at Hermosa, Wyo., as it works its way over Sherman Hill with a westbound freight. This was the last of the 25 4,500 h.p. turbines, wheel arrangement B-B+B-B, built by GE for UP in 1954. The open walkway along the side led to these units being called “gallery” or “veranda” turbines.

1960 Sebring competitor, ex-Briggs Cunningham 1960 Maserati Tipo 61/60 “Birdcage” racer. To be sold during Mecum’s third Monterey auction event August 18-20, this sports racer is chassis number 2459. Like the less than 20 other Tipos 60 and 61 built in 1959-1960, this example is powered by a front-mid-mounted, all-aluminum 200hp, 2.0-liter DOHC inline four-cylinder with two Weber 45DC03 carburetors. This light engine sits in a tubular space frame chassis designed by engineer Giulio Alfieri; it’s made up of more than 200 individual 10-15mm-thick tubes, many of which are exposed in the aluminum-bodied car, giving the Maserati its “Birdcage” nickname. This ultra-light (sub 1,300-pound), purposeful car has advanced features like a five-speed manual gearbox, rack and pinion steering, four-wheel disc brakes and a De Dion rear end. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/24/briggs-cunninghams-maserati-birdcage-to-be-sold-in-monterey/

BBC Breakfast's Joe Crowley gives a guided tour of the car that has been nicknamed "the fastest kettle in the world". The car, built by a British team, broke the century-old speed record for a steam-powered vehicle this summer, and is about to tour the country. Driver Don Wales describes what its like to get behind its wheel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8363692.stm